Sonnet
['sɒnɪt] or ['sɑnɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
(verb.) compose a sonnet.
(verb.) praise in a sonnet.
編輯:卢克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.
(n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
(v. i.) To compose sonnets.
贝丝編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Poem (of fourteen lines).
伯特校對
解釋/意思:
n. a poem in a stanza mostly iambic in movement properly decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic in metre always in fourteen lines—originally composed of an octave and a sestet—properly expressing two successive phases of one thought.—v.t. and v.i. to celebrate in sonnets.—adj. Sonn′etary.—n. Sonneteer′ a composer of sonnets.—v.i. Sonn′etise to compose sonnets.—v.t. to celebrate in a sonnet.—n. Sonn′etist (Shak.) a sonneteer.
艾琳編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- In Rome he wrote a sonnet to the sculptor Canova, and the literary circles of Italy proclaimed him a poet after their own heart. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Many an unhappy lover has found peace by expressing his misery in sonnet form. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When did I whip up syllabub sonnets or string stanzas fragile as fragments of glass? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
手打:玛吉